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by ataggart 16y ago
I'm not a fan of the provided definition of "bubble" as it's a purely statistical definition, free of any causal factors. You know there's a bubble when you see it pop; the boom is inflated by the misallocation capital which sows the seeds
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by ataggart 16y ago
It hurts the government's creditors, as it should.
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by ataggart 16y ago
>The poor are not getting poorer, the rich are just getting richer faster. It's also worth noting that "the rich," "the poor," "the uninsured," etc., are not constant groups over time.
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by ataggart 16y ago
Unless you need to legitimately initiate violence against others, it's not clear to me what "the government" brings to problem solving. A perpetual game of political whack-a-mole isn't my idea of progress.
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by ataggart 16y ago
For a given article, a single, long page should be able to display about as much ad space as multiple, short pages. If there's some benefit to the gross number of clicks/pageviews involved then perhaps it is the site that's gaming things.
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by ataggart 16y ago
It is useful to denote when ordered outcomes occur as a result of action but not of intention. Russ Roberts covers it well: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2005/Robertsmarkets....
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by ataggart 16y ago
clj-stacktrace improves things quite a bit. http://github.com/mmcgrana/clj-stacktrace
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by ataggart 16y ago
This works: javascript:(function(){function I(u){var t=u.split('.'),e=t[t.length-1].toLowerCase();return {gif:1,jpg:1,jpeg:1,png:1,mng:1}[e]}function hE(s){return s.replace(/&/g,'&').replace(/>/g,'>').replace(/&
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by ataggart 16y ago
In a functioning constitutional republic we would not first be asking what Amendments prohibit government power, but rather by what constitutionally-delegated power does the government assert its authority to act. Alas we've spent the bett
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by ataggart 16y ago
As Hayek noted in The Fatal Conceit , "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
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by ataggart 16y ago
Your insight is correct, but I don't think you're following it through to its conclusion. As a thought-experiment, step through the economic process that would occur in the face of increasing the minimum wage to $100. Think about how the pr
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by ataggart 16y ago
> Minimum wage was created specifically to stop abuse of large numbers of people. Fifty years ago, the politicians who pushed for the increased minimum wage did not hide their motives. Nor, in an era of state-sanctioned segregation, di
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by ataggart 16y ago
But employers don't set the wage. If they did, then all wages would fall to the minimum wage, when in fact only 2% of the US labor force does. Why is that? Russ Roberts covers the answer better than I could: http://www.econlib.org/librar
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by ataggart 16y ago
fp math + money = Superman III
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by ataggart 16y ago
And in clojure it would be (filter :part-time? employees)
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by ataggart 16y ago
And see Russ Roberts' hint at why such things fail: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2005/Robertsmarkets....
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by ataggart 16y ago
What's the over/under on the complaints about corporate giveaways to political campaigns? I'll take the under.
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by ataggart 16y ago
This discussion really makes me appreciate clojure.
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by ataggart 16y ago
>Take over healthcare and beat back prices? I guess you didn't really grok my point about prices not being exogenous entities.
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by ataggart 16y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Let me try again: When I think of firms not dependent upon nor beneficiaries of the government's largesse, the government's market manipulation, and government's anti-competitive barrier raising, AT&T isn't what
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by ataggart 16y ago
When I think of firms not dependent upon nor beneficiaries of government largesse, market manipulation, and anti-competitive barrier raising, AT&T isn't what comes to mind.
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by ataggart 16y ago
The problem is there's no better alternative.
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by ataggart 16y ago
A large organization populated by bad employees will go out of business. Only the government and its appendages have the luxury of avoid that fate.
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by ataggart 16y ago
Primary reason I haven't purchased a kindle: no way to lock the page orientation. I borrowed one from a friend and tried reading on the beach; the damn thing kept flipping around so I couldn't read it. Such a trivial thing to add, but lac
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by ataggart 16y ago
This could additionally be influenced by any number of schemes which increase both the size and number of college loans, e.g., government-guaranteed loans resulting in higher willingness to lend than might otherwise occur. Such subsidies (
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by ataggart 16y ago
Pension and health care outlays are not exogenous givens. The economy is not some external entity which government passively receives prices. Likewise the recession is not some external thing that can be waited-out like a hurricane. Our a
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by ataggart 16y ago
The field of economics has, for quite a while, been suffering from this sort of scientistic behavior, aping the practices of the physical sciences, while dismissing aprioristic economics simply because it doesn't. The following is a rather
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macros
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by ataggart 16y ago
(with-open [fis (FileInputStream. source) fos (FileOutputStream. target)] (do-stuff fis fos)) I wish they would spend less time adding stuff to the Java language (especially features present in other JVM languages)
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by ataggart 16y ago
One of his most absurd posts. Writing code is not like taking dictation or even writing prose. In a split-second I can think up a sentence, one that's likely "good enough" to convey whatever point I'm trying to make. Further, there is almo

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